Quotes About Skill

Stephen Ireland is one of the most talented players I have seen, and Nigel de Jong is doing really well. He fights for his team all over the pitch, and he has a lot of character.

Brazil needs a player like Neymar at his best on the pitch because Neymar on the pitch gives more confidence to the other players.

The pitch is the most important material for a football player.

The best players, they're always the last ones off the pitch, always working on this, working on that, and they put that into games.

Within the changing room, everyone has always known I'm best when I pitch the ball up and get a little bit of movement.

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.

Anytime a pitcher hasn't faced a hitter, I feel the pitcher has the advantage. The more times the hitter sees somebody, the more the advantage goes to the hitter.

I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.

You don't find a 6-foot-5 pitcher with the athleticism and coordination I have all that often.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

I can maybe depend on my fastball a little more than some other pitchers.

I watched a little bit of Altuve - how he hits, the pitches that he hits.

I learned to bat and bowl on different pitches and knew when to go hard and when to back off. It was just something I learned.

Rishabh Pant whenever he has got away from Delhi on good pitches, hard pitches where there is carry, he has been exceptional with the bat.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.

Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.

You have to have good starting pitching to win.

Any time I try to play anything that doesn't come natural, I'm just plain bad.

If you got a stuntman that can do it better than me, go do it. But if they can't do it better than me, I'm doing it myself - plain and simple.

Everybody likes to see a good soft-shoe dance and a song to go with It, but how often do you see It? It's a lost art, just plain hoofing, and I've never heard of anybody who didnt enjoy doing it or watching it.